In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
BOETHIUS
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top.
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Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don’t you agree?
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For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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Love binds people too, in matrimony’s sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.
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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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